Cops discount tale of bullet from outside, say Huguenot woman tried to take her own life

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police responding to a 911 call found a woman shot in her Huguenot residence tonight and, based on her account of a bullet supposedly fired from outside, combed the adjacent woods.

However, they soon determined that the torso wound was self-inflicted, and a suicide note was found, police sources said.

The call came over the police radio just before 6 p.m. for the 200 block of Cornelia Ave.

Initially, the victim -- identified as Deborah Fedora, 50 -- told police the bullet came through either a window or door and that she hadn't seen her assailant.

Almost immediately, police swarmed the scene and shut down the small block, opposite the Hylan Boulevard entrance to Wolfe's Pond Park.

Ms. Fedora was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Details of her condition were not immediately available tonight.

A neighbor told the Advance that Ms. Fedora has four brothers and lives alone with a dog.